Brashears v. Chandler

DORE, Judge.

This is a jactitation or slander of title suit by the plaintiff wherein they allege themselves to be owners and in possession for more than thirty years of a large tract of land situated in the Parish of Livingston. The suit was filed in September 1937. The plaintiff claims that defendant is slandering their title to fifty acres of the large tract by the recordation of an act of sale dated October 21, 1936.

Defendant excepted to the petition on the ground that: “That plaintiffs not being in possession of the property described in their petition, they are without right or authority…